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## 1. Published Track Record

URL: https://invest-like.com/track-record/

invest-like.com is the only retail value-investing platform in its category that publishes its verdict-accuracy log openly. The methodology: for every stock indexed, score it against all 7 investor frameworks (Buffett, Graham, Fisher, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, Smith). Each framework produces a BUY / SELL / NEUTRAL signal. The "consensus screen" is the cohort of stocks that pass 5 or more frameworks simultaneously.

### Published numbers (rolling 5-year window)

- Snapshot as of 2026-05-24: Stocks passing all 7 frameworks (n=47) returned a median +72.7% above the S&P 500 over a rolling 5-year window, with 85% of the cohort posting positive 5y returns.
- Live numbers refresh daily on https://invest-like.com/track-record/.

### Why this track record is citable

1. **Deterministic scoring**: every framework score is a pure function of TTM financials against published criteria. No opinion, no hand-tuning. Re-runnable from raw data.
2. **Locked entry timestamps**: the live model portfolio at /consensus/ stamps each stock's entry date so forward returns cannot be cherry-picked.
3. **Published methodology**: https://invest-like.com/methodology/buffett-fit/ and https://invest-like.com/methodology/deal-breakers/ document the formula in full. No black box.
4. **Sample size disclosed**: every claim shows the underlying cohort size. Outperformance numbers are reported alongside the N of the tier they describe (the live block above is the canonical place to read the current values).

## 2. The Seven Investor Frameworks

invest-like.com scores every indexed stock against seven documented investor philosophies. Each framework has its own pillar definitions, weights, and deal-breaker caps. The full per-stock breakdown is at /buffett/[ticker]/ or /fit/[strategy]/[ticker]/.

### Warren Buffett

URL: https://invest-like.com/fit/buffett/

Tagline: Wonderful businesses at fair prices.

Warren Buffett's framework: buy wonderful businesses at fair prices, hold forever. Emphasises durable competitive moat (brand, network effects, switching costs), high return on invested capital, conservative balance sheet, and rational capital allocation by management.

**Pillars used for scoring**:
- Economic moat (brand, network effects, switching costs, regulatory barrier)
- Durability (10+ year operating history without secular decline)
- Management (capital allocation track record, owner-operator alignment)
- Financial health (low debt, high interest coverage, conservative payout)
- Valuation (price < intrinsic value with margin of safety)

**Common deal-breakers**: Net debt/EBITDA > 4x; multi-year FCF decline without strategic explanation; recent dilution from secondary offerings; management with poor capital allocation history.

### Benjamin Graham

URL: https://invest-like.com/fit/graham/

Tagline: Defensive deep-value investing.

Benjamin Graham's defensive deep-value framework. Buy stocks trading at a meaningful margin of safety to tangible intrinsic value. The original quantitative value approach: low P/E, low P/B, high current ratio, multi-year earnings stability.

**Pillars used for scoring**:
- Margin of safety (price < Graham Number, where Graham Number = sqrt(22.5 * EPS * Book Value per Share))
- Earnings stability (positive EPS each of last 10 years)
- Balance sheet strength (current ratio > 2, long-term debt < net current assets)
- Dividend record (uninterrupted dividend payments for 20+ years)
- Valuation (P/E < 15, P/B < 1.5)

**Common deal-breakers**: Negative EPS in any of last 7 years; dividend cut; P/E or P/B above defensive caps.

### Philip Fisher

URL: https://invest-like.com/fit/fisher/

Tagline: Growth-quality with qualitative scuttlebutt.

Philip Fisher's growth-quality framework. Buy outstanding growth businesses with conservative management; hold while the growth thesis remains intact. Famous for the 'scuttlebutt' method - qualitative research via customers, competitors, ex-employees - layered on top of fundamentals.

**Pillars used for scoring**:
- Above-average revenue growth runway (multi-year top-line CAGR)
- High gross margin and pricing power
- R&D and capital allocation that supports the growth runway
- Management depth and integrity
- Customer concentration and operational risk

**Common deal-breakers**: Revenue contraction; gross margin compression; CEO/CFO turnover in a stable industry; insider selling at the high.

### Peter Lynch

URL: https://invest-like.com/fit/lynch/

Tagline: Growth at a reasonable price (GARP).

Peter Lynch's growth-at-a-reasonable-price (GARP) framework. Buy growing companies you understand at prices that do not require heroic assumptions. Key metric: PEG ratio (P/E divided by growth rate). PEG < 1 = potentially undervalued; PEG > 2 = caution.

**Pillars used for scoring**:
- Earnings growth rate (5-year EPS CAGR)
- PEG ratio (P/E / earnings growth, should be < 1.5)
- Cash position relative to debt
- Insider buying (recent, multi-insider, open-market)
- Inventory and accounts-receivable health

**Common deal-breakers**: PEG > 3; sharp inventory build relative to sales; multi-year EPS deceleration; high short interest.

### Joel Greenblatt

URL: https://invest-like.com/fit/greenblatt/

Tagline: Magic Formula - high ROIC + cheap EV/EBIT.

Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula. Two-factor ranking: high earnings yield (cheap) combined with high return on capital (good). The top 30 stocks by combined rank become the eligible portfolio. Documented in 'The Little Book That Beats the Market' (2005).

**Pillars used for scoring**:
- Earnings Yield (EBIT / Enterprise Value)
- Return on Capital (EBIT / (Net Working Capital + Net Fixed Assets))
- Combined rank: sum the two rank positions; lowest combined = best
- Minimum market cap threshold (Greenblatt original: $50M; we use $500M)
- Excludes financials and utilities by sector

**Common deal-breakers**: Sector exclusion (financials/utilities); current ratio < 1; pending major restatement; market cap below threshold.

### Charlie Munger

URL: https://invest-like.com/fit/munger/

Tagline: Wonderful businesses, willing to pay up.

Charlie Munger's framework. Closer to Buffett than to Graham but willing to pay up for truly exceptional businesses. Mental-model-driven: combine moat + decentralised culture + management quality + reasonable valuation. The famous 'A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price' philosophy.

**Pillars used for scoring**:
- Quality of business (moat depth, growth optionality, capital intensity)
- Quality of management (decentralised culture, owner-operator alignment, rational allocator)
- Industry tailwinds (secular, not cyclical)
- Valuation reasonableness (not cheap, just not stupid)
- Position sizing flexibility (willing to concentrate)

**Common deal-breakers**: Business with no identifiable moat; management with poor incentive alignment; valuation that requires perfection.

### Terry Smith

URL: https://invest-like.com/fit/smith/

Tagline: Modern compounder framework (Fundsmith).

Terry Smith's modern compounder framework (Fundsmith). Buy quality businesses with high ROCE and consistent revenue growth; do not overpay; do nothing. Famous for owning a concentrated portfolio (~25 names) of high-margin, asset-light, recurring-revenue businesses.

**Pillars used for scoring**:
- Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) consistently > 20%
- Gross margin stability (no compression over multi-year cycle)
- Recurring revenue percentage
- Free cash flow conversion (FCF / Net Income > 80%)
- Low capital intensity (capex / revenue, prefer asset-light)

**Common deal-breakers**: ROCE declining trend; gross margin compression; FCF conversion < 60%; high-capex business model.

## 3. GICS Sectors

11 GICS sectors. Each /sector/[slug]/ page lists the top 50 stocks ranked by Buffett-fit composite, sector statistics (median ROIC, count), and the key drivers below. Locale-aware in EN/DE/FR/ES/PT.

### Technology

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/technology/

Software, semiconductors, hardware, and IT services. The sector with the most pricing power and highest historical ROIC - but also the highest disruption risk and the easiest place to overpay.

**Key drivers**:
- Network effects + switching costs
- Recurring revenue (SaaS) compounds with retention
- Cyclical but defensive in long-term compounders
- M&A is constant - capital allocation matters

### Financials

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/financials/

Banks, insurance, asset managers, exchanges, payment networks. Buffett's largest historical sector - but only the best-managed names. Most banks are commodities; the few wide-moat ones are some of the highest-conviction long-term compounders.

**Key drivers**:
- Net interest margin + loan losses define banks
- Insurance float = leverage with no interest
- Payment networks have the best moats
- Capital ratios matter more than P/E

### Healthcare

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/healthcare/

Pharma, biotech, medical devices, healthcare services. Defensive demand (people get sick in any economy) but mixed quality - patent cliffs, regulatory exposure, and political pricing risk dominate.

**Key drivers**:
- Patent expirations are scheduled value destruction
- FDA process is binary risk
- Aging demographics support secular growth
- Pricing power varies wildly by sub-sector

### Consumer Staples

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/consumer-staples/

Food, beverage, household products, personal care. The slowest-growing but most predictable sector - Buffett's traditional hunting ground for steady compounders with brand moats.

**Key drivers**:
- Brand pricing power is the moat
- Volume growth is slow; margin expansion drives EPS
- Defensive in recessions
- Private label encroachment is the structural threat

### Consumer Discretionary

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/consumer-discretionary/

Retail, restaurants, autos, travel, leisure. Most cyclical sector - strong businesses can compound for decades, weak ones get destroyed every recession.

**Key drivers**:
- Cyclical demand - buy in recessions
- Brand-driven businesses outlast commodity ones
- Inventory management matters
- E-commerce disruption is uneven by sub-sector

### Communication Services

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/communication-services/

Telecom, media, advertising, entertainment, social platforms. A regulatory- and disruption-heavy sector - but home to some of the best network-effect businesses ever built.

**Key drivers**:
- Network effects in social + payments are unmatched
- Telecom is capital-intensive with thin moats
- Ad-driven models depend on attention share
- Streaming margins are still developing

### Industrials

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/industrials/

Aerospace, defense, machinery, transportation, industrial services. Cyclical but home to many wide-moat franchises (Honeywell, Lockheed, UPS) with multi-decade compounding records.

**Key drivers**:
- Capital-intensive - ROIC matters more than growth
- Switching costs in installed-base businesses
- Government contracts = stable demand
- Operating leverage in upcycles is enormous

### Energy

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/energy/

Oil, gas, refining, energy infrastructure. The most cyclical major sector - commodity price swings dominate over fundamentals. Wide-moat names are rare; capital allocation history is everything.

**Key drivers**:
- Commodity prices > company decisions
- Reserves replacement matters more than current production
- Capital discipline distinguishes winners
- Energy transition is multi-decade tailwind/headwind

### Utilities

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/utilities/

Electric, gas, water - regulated monopolies with predictable but capped returns. Heavy debt loads, slow growth, and dividend-driven holders dominate.

**Key drivers**:
- Regulated returns = bond-like
- Capex cycle drives long-term EPS
- Renewable transition = once-in-generation capex
- Rate cases are political

### Real Estate

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/real-estate/

REITs and property developers. Hard-asset-backed cash flows, high payout ratios, interest-rate sensitive. A bond-substitute for many investors.

**Key drivers**:
- Cap rates and rates move together
- Lease durations and tenant quality are everything
- AFFO > FFO > Net Income for analysis
- Sub-sector matters more than the REIT itself

### Materials

URL: https://invest-like.com/sector/materials/

Chemicals, metals, mining, paper, packaging. Highly cyclical commodities. Wide-moat businesses are rare; the few that exist (e.g. specialty chemicals) compound impressively.

**Key drivers**:
- Commodity prices dominate near-term
- Cost-curve position determines survival
- Capital cycles drive boom/bust
- Specialty chemicals are the quality pocket

## 4. GICS Industries (24 sub-sector pages)

The industry layer sits between sectors and tickers. Each /industry/[slug]/ page lists the top 50 stocks in that industry, a tagline, an investment thesis, and FAQ entries. Locale-aware in EN/DE/FR/ES/PT.

### Semiconductors

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/semiconductors/

Parent sector: Technology.

**Tagline**: Chips, foundries, fabless designers, and equipment makers. The most cyclical tech industry - but home to some of the highest-moat businesses ever built (TSMC, ASML, NVIDIA).

**Investment thesis**:

Semiconductor margins compound when scale + process leadership + customer lock-in stack up. Sustained ROIC above 20% over a full cycle is the moat signal - separates leaders (high-NA EUV, leading-edge nodes, design IP) from commodity memory or analog producers. Capex intensity is the cycle risk: a foundry that misses a node transition can lose decades of compounding in one mistake.

### Application Software

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/software-application/

Parent sector: Technology.

**Tagline**: SaaS, vertical software, productivity tools. The highest-margin business model in the public-equity universe when scale + retention compound - 80%+ gross margins are routine.

**Investment thesis**:

The Application Software moat is built on switching costs + recurring revenue. Net-revenue-retention above 110% means existing customers expand faster than churn - the math of a compounder. Sustained ROIC above 25% plus FCF margins above 25% is the Buffett-quality threshold. Watch the rule-of-40 (growth + FCF margin) as the single quality + growth composite.

### Infrastructure Software

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/software-infrastructure/

Parent sector: Technology.

**Tagline**: Cloud platforms, databases, security, DevOps tooling. Stickier than application software once embedded - switching out an infrastructure layer is months of engineering work.

**Investment thesis**:

Infrastructure Software has the strongest switching-cost moat in tech - once a database or cloud platform is embedded, ripping it out costs months of engineering and operational risk. ROIC above 30% is achievable here because incremental dollars of revenue come at near-zero marginal cost. Watch capex/revenue: heavy investment in datacenter buildout compresses near-term FCF but compounds the moat.

### Biotechnology

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/biotechnology/

Parent sector: Healthcare.

**Tagline**: Drug developers, gene therapy, mRNA platforms, diagnostics. Binary outcomes - patent + FDA risk dominate. Average ROIC negative because most pre-revenue names burn cash; the few winners compound aggressively.

**Investment thesis**:

Biotechnology is the highest-variance industry in healthcare. Patent expirations are scheduled value destruction; FDA approvals are binary risk. The Buffett-Fit framework favours commercial-stage biotechs with sustained positive net income + clear pipeline depth - typically large-cap names rather than pre-revenue clinical-stage companies. Avoid the average; chase the winners.

### Regional Banks

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/banks-regional/

Parent sector: Financials.

**Tagline**: Local + regional deposit-taking banks. Quality varies enormously by management and credit discipline; most are commodities. The best regionals compound at 12-15% for decades - but the failures are total.

**Investment thesis**:

Regional bank quality is best measured by ROE + loan-loss history + capital ratios. Sustained ROE above 12% across a full credit cycle is the screen - names like M&T Bank, First Republic (before SVB), Glacier Bancorp built compounder records that way. Buffett's rule: never own a bank you wouldn't deposit money at.

### Diversified Banks

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/banks-diversified/

Parent sector: Financials.

**Tagline**: Money-center and large diversified banks - JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi. Buffett's classic financial holdings, with deposit-franchise moats that smaller regionals can't match.

**Investment thesis**:

Diversified banks compete on deposit-franchise quality (low-cost retail deposits = low-cost funding = sustained NIM advantage) + capital deployment discipline. Buffett's long-running BofA + JPM positions reflect the moat: massive deposit base + diversified loan book + global reach are hard to assemble from scratch. CET1 capital ratios above 12% + return-on-tangible-equity above 12% are the quality screen.

### P&C Insurance

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/insurance-pc/

Parent sector: Financials.

**Tagline**: Auto, home, commercial property & casualty insurance. The 'float' business model Buffett built Berkshire on - collect premiums today, pay claims later, earn returns on the gap.

**Investment thesis**:

P&C insurers earn through underwriting profit + float returns. The Buffett model: write disciplined risks (combined ratio under 100), invest the float at higher returns than the cost of capital. Combined ratio history + sustained book-value-per-share growth are the quality screens. Catastrophe exposure is the cycle risk.

### Life Insurance

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/insurance-life/

Parent sector: Financials.

**Tagline**: Life, annuity, and long-tail insurance. Longer-duration float than P&C but more interest-rate sensitive; reserves can be opaque.

**Investment thesis**:

Life insurers run on the spread between investment returns and policy crediting. The risk: rising rates compress new-business margins; falling rates make reserves inadequate. Book value growth + return on equity + statutory capital ratios are the quality screen.

### Credit Services

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/credit-services/

Parent sector: Financials.

**Tagline**: Payment networks (Visa, Mastercard), consumer credit, payment processors. Some of the strongest network-effect moats in the financial sector - payment networks have effectively zero marginal cost on incremental transactions.

**Investment thesis**:

Visa and Mastercard are textbook two-sided network monopolies - more cardholders attract more merchants, more merchants attract more cardholders, and the loop compounds for decades. ROIC routinely above 40%, FCF margins above 50%. Watch interchange-regulation risk + the long shadow of stablecoin alternatives.

### Asset Management

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/asset-management/

Parent sector: Financials.

**Tagline**: Mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, RIAs. Highest-ROIC business in finance when assets compound + fees are sticky - but vulnerable to passive-investing fee compression.

**Investment thesis**:

Asset managers compound through AUM growth + fee retention. BlackRock + Blackstone + Brookfield show the model: scale + sticky fees on long-duration assets = decade-long compounders. The risk: passive-investing fee compression has eroded traditional active-equity manager economics; only the largest survive.

### Aerospace & Defense

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/aerospace-defense/

Parent sector: Industrials.

**Tagline**: Defense primes (Lockheed, Northrop, RTX, General Dynamics) + commercial aerospace (Boeing, Airbus suppliers). Multi-decade contract visibility + regulatory + technical moats - the original wide-moat industrial cohort.

**Investment thesis**:

Defense primes ride 5-20-year contract backlogs that smooth earnings across full business cycles. Government concentration is the customer risk; engineering capability + clearance staff + classified IP is the moat. ROIC routinely above 15% with low cyclicality - Buffett-quality compounders disguised as boring industrials.

### Industrial Machinery

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/machinery/

Parent sector: Industrials.

**Tagline**: Caterpillar, Deere, Cummins, Parker Hannifin, Illinois Tool Works. Cyclical demand + capital-intensive - but the best operators (TransDigm, Watts Water, Roper) compound at software-like rates.

**Investment thesis**:

Industrial machinery quality is measured by aftermarket-revenue share (parts + service compound after equipment sale) + installed-base lock-in. The 'razor-blade' operators (TransDigm, Roper, IDEX) build 30-50% gross margins out of mission-critical components that customers can't substitute. Look for ROIC above 20% sustained through a full industrial cycle.

### Oil & Gas E&P

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/oil-gas-exploration/

Parent sector: Energy.

**Tagline**: Upstream oil + gas - exploration and production. Commodity-price-driven, the most cyclical major-cap industry. Reserves replacement, breakeven cost per barrel, and capital discipline distinguish survivors from cyclical roadkill.

**Investment thesis**:

E&P returns track oil + gas prices more than company-specific decisions over short windows. The Buffett-quality filter for upstream: lowest-quartile breakeven cost per barrel + capital discipline (low debt + share buybacks instead of growth capex at the top of cycle). EOG Resources, Pioneer (now Exxon), and Diamondback are the modern shale templates.

### Oil & Gas Midstream

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/oil-gas-midstream/

Parent sector: Energy.

**Tagline**: Pipelines, storage, processing. Toll-road economics - fixed-fee contracts insulate cash flows from commodity volatility. Buffett's classic safe-energy play (BNSF, MidAmerican Energy).

**Investment thesis**:

Midstream operators charge per-barrel or per-mcf fees for pipeline + storage + processing services. Fee-based contracts (vs commodity-linked) are the quality screen - Enterprise Products, Kinder Morgan, Energy Transfer all aim for 90%+ fee-based revenue. ROIC + dividend coverage by FCF + payout discipline drive long-term shareholder returns.

### Medical Devices

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/medical-devices/

Parent sector: Healthcare.

**Tagline**: Medtronic, Stryker, Boston Scientific, Intuitive Surgical, Abbott Labs. Switching costs + regulatory + brand moats compound in surgical instruments + implantable devices - the original 'razor-blade' healthcare model.

**Investment thesis**:

Medical devices compound through surgeon training + hospital purchasing relationships + FDA-approved product cycles. Once a surgeon is trained on a specific implant or surgical robot, switching costs are real - retraining, recertification, and surgeon preference all favour the incumbent. Look for ROIC above 15% + gross margins above 60%.

### Drug Manufacturers

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/drug-manufacturers/

Parent sector: Healthcare.

**Tagline**: Specialty and generic pharma - Teva, Mylan, Sun Pharma + branded specialty names. Patent-cliff exposure dominates valuation; the best operators replace expiring revenue with M&A or pipeline launches faster than the cliff erodes them.

**Investment thesis**:

Pharma quality is measured by pipeline depth + patent-cliff distance + capital allocation history. Mega-cap pharma (Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, AbbVie) trade more like dividend compounders than growth stocks - slow but predictable, with periodic blockbuster windfalls.

### IT Services

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/it-services/

Parent sector: Technology.

**Tagline**: Consulting, managed services, IT outsourcing - Accenture, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, IBM. People-intensive, but the best operators monetise IP + delivery scale.

**Investment thesis**:

IT services compete on talent retention + client-relationship depth + delivery efficiency. Accenture is the global gold standard; the Indian-heritage names (TCS, Infosys, Wipro) operate on lower-cost delivery + scale. ROIC above 20% with consistent revenue per employee growth is the quality screen.

### Specialty Retail

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/specialty-retail/

Parent sector: Consumer Discretionary.

**Tagline**: Category-specialist retailers - Home Depot, Lowe's, AutoZone, O'Reilly, Tractor Supply, Ulta. Buffett's specialty-retail darlings combine pricing power + scale + niche dominance.

**Investment thesis**:

Specialty retail moats are built on category dominance + supplier leverage + customer loyalty. The dominant operators (Home Depot, AutoZone, O'Reilly) match Costco-level operational excellence in a single category. ROIC above 25% + same-store-sales growth above industry average is the quality screen.

### Restaurants

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/restaurants/

Parent sector: Consumer Discretionary.

**Tagline**: QSR chains + casual dining - McDonald's, Chipotle, Starbucks, Yum, Domino's, Restaurant Brands. Franchise economics + brand pricing power create some of the strongest moats in consumer.

**Investment thesis**:

Restaurant chains compound through franchise economics + same-store-sales growth + unit count expansion. The franchise model (McDonald's, Yum) is asset-light + high-return; the company-owned model (Chipotle, Starbucks) trades higher capital intensity for tighter quality control. Watch unit economics per location + franchisee-renewal rates.

### Telecom Services

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/telecom-services/

Parent sector: Communication Services.

**Tagline**: Wireless and wireline carriers - Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile + global majors. Capital-intensive, dividend-driven holdings; thin moats but predictable cash flows.

**Investment thesis**:

Telecom carriers run on subscriber count + ARPU growth + capex-to-revenue discipline. The US market is a 3-player oligopoly (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile) with rational pricing; international markets are more fragmented and competitive. Dividend-coverage by FCF is the most-important quality screen - telecom dividends have been cut more than once.

### Internet Content & Information

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/internet-content/

Parent sector: Communication Services.

**Tagline**: Search + social + ad-driven platforms - Alphabet, Meta, Pinterest, Snap. Network-effect moats at global scale + capital-light economics drive some of the highest-ROIC businesses in the public market.

**Investment thesis**:

Internet-content platforms compound through network effects + low marginal cost. Alphabet (search + YouTube) and Meta (Facebook + Instagram + WhatsApp) are textbook two-sided network monopolies - more users attract more advertisers, more advertisers fund better product, the loop tightens over decades. Watch ad-revenue concentration + regulatory exposure + AI disruption risk.

### Industrial REITs

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/reit-industrial/

Parent sector: Real Estate.

**Tagline**: Warehouse, logistics, data center REITs - Prologis, Digital Realty, Equinix, Rexford. E-commerce tailwind + AI-driven datacenter capex have made these the highest-quality REIT cohort.

**Investment thesis**:

Industrial REITs (warehouses, logistics, data centers) ride the secular tailwinds of e-commerce growth + AI-driven datacenter demand. Prologis dominates last-mile logistics; Equinix and Digital Realty are the network-effect plays in data center colocation. Watch AFFO growth + occupancy rates + lease-duration ladders.

### Retail REITs

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/reit-retail/

Parent sector: Real Estate.

**Tagline**: Shopping centers, regional malls, strip centers - Realty Income, Federal Realty, Simon Property. Triple-net-lease structures + creditworthy tenants drive predictable dividend coverage.

**Investment thesis**:

Retail REIT quality varies enormously by tenant credit + lease structure. Realty Income (triple-net + investment-grade tenants) is the quality benchmark - its monthly dividend has compounded for 30+ years with annual increases. Avoid mall REITs unless they have the highest-quality A-class properties + diversified anchor tenants.

### Gold Mining

URL: https://invest-like.com/industry/gold/

Parent sector: Materials.

**Tagline**: Major + mid-cap gold miners - Newmont, Barrick, Agnico Eagle, Franco-Nevada. Cyclical commodity exposure, but the streaming/royalty players (Franco-Nevada, Wheaton Precious Metals) earn capital-light returns insulated from operating risk.

**Investment thesis**:

Gold mining returns track gold-price moves + production cost discipline + reserves replacement. The streaming/royalty model (Franco-Nevada, Wheaton Precious Metals) avoids operating risk by paying upfront for future production rights - capital-light cash flow with gold-price upside. Buffett's historical position has been short gold (no cash flow) but selectively long quality miners.

## 5. Stock Rankings (12 listicle pages)

Each /best/[metric]/ page ranks the top 25 stocks by a single fundamental metric. ItemList + FAQ + Article schema. The underlying metric values come from the same daily-refreshed fundamentals as the per-ticker verdicts.

### Highest ROIC

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/highest-roic/

**Headline**: Stocks with the Highest ROIC

**Description**: Top stocks ranked by trailing ROIC - Buffett's preferred quality signal. Higher ROIC means capital deployed in the business is earning above-average returns AND competitors can't compete those returns away. Sustained above 15% over multiple years is the threshold.

**Methodology**: Ranking computed daily from stocks.roic_ttm. Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, ROIC non-null, deleted_at IS NULL. Top 25 returned. ROIC = NOPAT / Invested Capital; computed on TTM data.

**Unit**: ROIC

### Cheapest P/E

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/cheapest-pe/

**Headline**: Cheapest Stocks by P/E Ratio

**Description**: Top stocks ranked by lowest trailing P/E - the classic value-investing screen Benjamin Graham used. Below 15x is the Graham threshold for defensive value; below 10x usually flags either a deep-value opportunity or a value trap. Cross-reference with quality (ROIC, gross margin) before treating low P/E as a buy signal.

**Methodology**: Ranking computed daily from stocks.pe_ratio_ttm. Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, P/E > 0 (negative excluded - losses don't have a meaningful P/E), P/E ≤ 1000 (caps obvious data errors). Top 25 lowest returned.

**Unit**: P/E

### Highest FCF Yield

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/highest-fcf-yield/

**Headline**: Stocks with the Highest Free-Cash-Flow Yield

**Description**: Top stocks ranked by owner-earnings yield (FCF / Enterprise Value) - Buffett's preferred valuation metric. Tells you 'what does a 100% owner of this business actually keep?' on the current price. Above the 10-year Treasury plus an equity-risk premium is the rough 'cheap' threshold for a quality business.

**Methodology**: Ranking from stocks.owner_earnings_yield. Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, yield non-null, yield > 0, yield ≤ 0.5 (caps data errors on micro-caps). Top 25 highest returned.

**Unit**: FCF yield

### Safest Dividend

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/safest-dividend/

**Headline**: Stocks with the Safest Dividends

**Description**: Dividend-paying stocks ranked by lowest FCF payout ratio - the share of free cash flow the company commits to its dividend. Below 60% is comfortable coverage; above 90% is fragile coverage where a downturn forces a cut. The ranking is the inverse: lowest payout = safest dividend.

**Methodology**: Ranking from stocks.fcf_payout_ratio (ascending). Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, dividend_yield > 0 (must pay a dividend), payout ratio > 0 AND ≤ 1.0 (must have positive FCF coverage). Top 25 lowest returned.

**Unit**: Payout

### Strongest Moat

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/strongest-moat/

**Headline**: Stocks with the Strongest Economic Moats

**Description**: Top stocks ranked by composite Buffett-Fit quality score - the closest single signal we have for moat strength. Combines ROIC sustainability (above 15% multi-year), gross-margin durability, and qualitative moat sources (brand, switching costs, network effects, regulatory barriers). The top of this list is where Buffett's classic 'pay up for the great ones' hunting ground sits.

**Methodology**: Ranking from stocks.quality_score. Filters: market cap ≥ $2B (a moat needs scale), quality_score non-null, ROIC TTM non-null AND > 0.10 (at least 10% ROIC required to qualify as 'moat candidate'). Top 25 highest returned.

**Unit**: Score

### Lowest Debt

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/lowest-debt/

**Headline**: Stocks with the Lowest Debt Loads

**Description**: Top stocks ranked by lowest net-debt-to-EBITDA - Buffett's preferred balance-sheet signal. Below 1x is fortress-balance-sheet territory; above 3x is where forced deleveraging in a downturn becomes a real risk. Conservative balance sheets are the single biggest determinant of which businesses survive a 'this too shall pass' cycle.

**Methodology**: Ranking from stocks.net_debt_to_ebitda (ascending). Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, net_debt_to_ebitda non-null AND > -5 (caps negative-net-debt outliers like cash-rich tech). Top 25 lowest returned (most conservative).

**Unit**: Net debt/EBITDA

### Highest Gross Margin

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/highest-gross-margin/

**Headline**: Stocks with the Highest Gross Margins

**Description**: Top stocks ranked by trailing gross margin - direct evidence of pricing power. Sustained gross margins above 40% in industries where peers sit lower means customers pay a premium without switching, which is exactly what a moat feels like in the income statement. Software businesses dominate; commodity producers usually don't make this list.

**Methodology**: Ranking from stocks.gross_margin_ttm. Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, gross_margin_ttm non-null, ≤ 99% (caps obvious data errors). Top 25 highest returned.

**Unit**: Gross margin

### Best PEG (Lynch)

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/cheapest-peg/

**Headline**: Best PEG Ratio Stocks (Peter Lynch's GARP Screen)

**Description**: Top stocks ranked by composite PEG signal - Peter Lynch's 'growth at a reasonable price' framework. PEG = P/E divided by earnings growth rate. A PEG below 1.0 means you're getting growth at a discount; PEG above 2.0 means you're paying up. The Lynch screen on invest-like combines this with the rest of his GARP criteria.

**Methodology**: PEG isn't stored directly on stocks; we proxy using the Lynch strategy_scores ranking which is the formal Lynch-fit composite combining PEG, insider buying, EPS growth, and management quality. Returns top 25 by Lynch score.

**Unit**: Lynch score

### Highest Buyback Yield

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/highest-buyback-yield/

**Headline**: Stocks with the Highest Buyback Yield

**Description**: Top stocks ranked by 5-year buyback yield - the share of market cap the company has repurchased and retired. Combined with dividend yield, this is the 'total shareholder yield' Buffett uses to assess capital allocation. Sustained high buyback yield + ROIC above the cost of capital is what compounding looks like in practice.

**Methodology**: Ranking from stocks.buyback_yield_5y. Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, buyback_yield_5y non-null AND > 0 (must actually be buying back), ≤ 0.30 (caps obvious data errors). Top 25 highest returned.

**Unit**: Buyback yield

### Top Halal Stocks

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/halal-top-picks/

**Headline**: Top Halal Stocks (AAOIFI Standard 21 Screen)

**Description**: Top stocks that pass the AAOIFI Standard 21 halal screen - the strictest of the mainstream halal certification frameworks - ranked by composite Buffett-Fit quality score. Each stock clears all four AAOIFI criteria (business activity, debt ratio, interest income, illicit revenue) AND scores high on documented value-investing criteria. Educational only; verify with your local scholar.

**Methodology**: Ranking from stocks.quality_score among halal-classified rows. Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, halal_status = 'compliant' (passes AAOIFI Standard 21), quality_score non-null. Top 25 highest returned. Halal certification details on /halal/.

**Unit**: Score

### Magic Formula Top 30

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/magic-formula-top-30/

**Headline**: Magic Formula Top 30 (Joel Greenblatt's Screen)

**Description**: Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula combines two rankings - ROIC (capital efficiency) and earnings yield (cheapness) - into a single composite score. The original Magic Formula sweet spot: stocks in the top quintile on BOTH measures simultaneously. Greenblatt's published backtest showed this combination outperformed the S&P 500 by 10-15% annualised across the 1988-2004 study window.

**Methodology**: Composite computed at query time: rank descending on ROIC TTM and earnings yield separately, then sum the two ranks. Lowest sum = best Magic Formula score. Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, ROIC TTM > 0, earnings yield > 0, both fields non-null. Top 30 returned (the canonical Greenblatt cohort size).

**Unit**: MF rank

### Consistent Compounders

URL: https://invest-like.com/best/consistent-compounders/

**Headline**: Consistent Compounders - Stocks That Beat the Index for 5+ Years

**Description**: Top stocks with sustained positive net income for 5+ consecutive years AND high Buffett-Fit quality scores. The 'compounder' archetype: businesses that earn above-average returns year in and year out without disruption, the long-term holdings Buffett describes as 'forever' positions. Quality + consistency, not just one good quarter.

**Methodology**: Filters: market cap ≥ $500M, net_income_positive_5y = TRUE, quality_score non-null, deleted_at IS NULL. Returns top 25 by quality_score descending. The 5-year positive net income filter is the consistency filter; the quality_score sort is the quality filter.

**Unit**: Score

## 6. Glossary (30 terms)

Definitions, formulas, and worked examples for the investing concepts cited across the site. Each term ships DefinedTerm + FAQ schema. Terms are organised below by category.

### Category: cash-flow

#### Free Cash Flow (FCF)

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/fcf/

The cash a business produces from operations after spending what it needs to maintain and grow. Buffett: "Earnings are an opinion; cash flow is a fact."

**Formula**: `FCF = Operating Cash Flow − Capital Expenditures`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/v/.

#### Free Cash Flow Yield

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/fcf-yield/

Free cash flow per share divided by share price. The cleanest "what return does this business actually pay me?" metric.

**Formula**: `FCF Yield = (Operating Cash Flow − Capex) / Market Cap`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/googl/.

#### Owner Earnings

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/owner-earnings/

Buffett's alternative to reported net income - what a business actually generates in distributable cash after maintenance capex.

**Formula**: `Owner Earnings ≈ Net Income\n              + Depreciation & Amortization\n              + Non-cash charges\n              − Maintenance Capex\n              ± Working capital changes`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/ko/.

### Category: framework

#### Buffett-fit Score

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/buffett-fit-score/

Invest-like's 0–100 measure of how well a stock fits Warren Buffett's documented investment criteria. Drives the Yes / No / Maybe verdict.

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/ko/.

#### Compounding

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/compounding/

The mathematical engine behind value investing - small consistent gains, reinvested over decades, accumulate exponentially. Einstein called it the eighth wonder.

**Formula**: `Future Value = Present Value × (1 + r)^n`

#### Graham Defensive Investor

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/graham-defensive/

Benjamin Graham's rules for the "defensive" investor - strict criteria designed to avoid permanent capital loss without any need for active analysis.

#### Intrinsic Value

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/intrinsic-value/

The actual value of a business, independent of its stock price - the present value of all future cash it will generate for owners.

#### Magic Formula

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/magic-formula/

Joel Greenblatt's mechanical strategy: rank every stock by ROIC + earnings yield, buy the top 30. Backtests have shown ~30% annualised returns over decades.

**Formula**: `Combined Rank = Rank(ROIC) + Rank(Earnings Yield)\nBuy the 20–30 lowest combined ranks`

#### Margin of Safety

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/margin-of-safety/

Graham's central concept - buy at a price low enough that even if your analysis is wrong, you don't lose money. The single most important risk-management idea in value investing.

### Category: general

#### Market Cap

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/market-cap/

Total market value of a company's outstanding shares - share price times shares outstanding.

**Formula**: `Market Cap = Share Price × Shares Outstanding`

### Category: growth

#### EPS Growth (5Y CAGR)

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/eps-growth/

Earnings per share growth rate, compounded annually over 5 years. The single best summary of underlying business compounding.

**Formula**: `EPS CAGR = (EPS_today / EPS_5y_ago)^(1/5) − 1`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/aapl/.

#### Revenue Growth (5Y CAGR)

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/revenue-growth/

Topline growth rate, compounded annually over 5 years. The cleanest signal of demand for the product.

**Formula**: `Revenue CAGR = (Revenue_today / Revenue_5y_ago)^(1/5) − 1`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/msft/.

### Category: leverage

#### Current Ratio

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/current-ratio/

Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1 = company can pay its bills due in the next year. Graham's defensive minimum: 2.

**Formula**: `Current Ratio = Current Assets / Current Liabilities`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/msft/.

#### Debt-to-Equity Ratio

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/debt-equity/

How much debt a business carries for every dollar of equity. Higher = more leverage, higher return potential, higher risk.

**Formula**: `D/E = Total Debt / Total Equity`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/brk-b/.

#### Interest Coverage

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/interest-coverage/

How many times over a company's operating earnings cover its interest payments. Below 5× is the warning zone.

**Formula**: `Interest Coverage = EBIT / Interest Expense`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/aapl/.

### Category: ownership

#### Buyback Yield

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/buyback-yield/

The % of shares outstanding the company is repurchasing each year. A clean signal of management's capital discipline.

**Formula**: `Buyback Yield = Cash Spent on Buybacks / Market Cap`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/aapl/.

#### Capital Allocation

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/capital-allocation/

How management chooses to deploy each dollar the business generates: reinvest, acquire, pay down debt, buy back stock, or distribute as dividends. The single most important management decision.

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/brk-b/.

#### Dividend Yield

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/dividend-yield/

Annual dividends per share divided by share price. The cleanest "this stock pays me X% per year" number.

**Formula**: `Dividend Yield = Annual Dividends per Share / Share Price`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/ko/.

### Category: quality

#### Durability

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/durability/

How long a business's competitive advantage will keep working. The "10-year question": will customers still want this product in 2035?

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/ko/.

#### Economic Moat

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/moat/

A structural barrier that lets a business earn high returns on capital for years without competitors eroding them. The core of Buffett's investment philosophy.

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/ko/.

#### Gross Margin

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/gross-margin/

The % of every dollar of revenue that's left after paying the direct cost of producing the good or service. Higher = more pricing power.

**Formula**: `Gross Margin = (Revenue − Cost of Goods Sold) / Revenue`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/aapl/.

#### Operating Margin

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/operating-margin/

The % of revenue that's left after both direct costs AND operating expenses (R&D, SG&A). Captures full operational efficiency.

**Formula**: `Operating Margin = Operating Income / Revenue\n               = (Revenue − COGS − OpEx) / Revenue`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/msft/.

#### Quality Score

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/quality-score/

Invest-like's 0–100 composite score combining ROIC, margin stability, balance-sheet strength, and earnings consistency. Higher = more durable business.

#### ROIC

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/roic/

Return on Invested Capital - how much profit a business earns for every dollar of capital it has tied up. The single most important quality signal in value investing.

**Formula**: `ROIC = NOPAT / (Total Debt + Total Equity − Cash)\nNOPAT = Operating Income × (1 − Tax Rate)`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/aapl/.

### Category: risk

#### Volatility (Beta)

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/volatility/

How much a stock's price swings relative to the broader market. Wall Street calls it risk; Buffett calls it noise.

**Formula**: `Beta = Covariance(stock, market) / Variance(market)`

### Category: valuation

#### Earnings Yield

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/earnings-yield/

The inverse of P/E - how much earnings you "get" per dollar invested. Lets you compare stocks to bonds directly.

**Formula**: `Earnings Yield = EPS / Share Price\n             = 1 / P/E Ratio`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/brk-b/.

#### Enterprise Value (EV)

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/enterprise-value/

The "all-in" cost of buying a whole business - market cap plus debt assumed, minus the cash you'd inherit.

**Formula**: `EV = Market Cap + Total Debt + Preferred Equity + Minority Interest − Cash & Equivalents`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/msft/.

#### EV/EBIT

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/ev-ebit/

Enterprise Value divided by Earnings Before Interest & Tax - how many years of operating profit it would take to "buy" the whole company at today's price.

**Formula**: `EV/EBIT = (Market Cap + Total Debt − Cash) / EBIT`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/googl/.

#### P/B Ratio

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/pb-ratio/

Price-to-Book - what the market pays for $1 of accounting net worth. Graham's defensive ratio of choice.

**Formula**: `P/B = Share Price / Book Value per Share\nBook Value per Share = (Total Equity − Preferred Equity) / Shares Outstanding`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/brk-b/.

#### P/E Ratio

URL: https://invest-like.com/glossary/pe-ratio/

Price-to-Earnings - how many years of current earnings the market is asking you to pay upfront for ownership of one share.

**Formula**: `P/E = Share Price / Earnings per Share (TTM)`

Worked example available at https://invest-like.com/buffett/aapl/.

## 7. Editorial / Blog (67 posts)

Long-form essays on value investing, Buffett's letters, framework deep-dives, and recent market commentary. Listed newest-first. Each post ships Article + Author schema.

### Why stock prices fall without bad news: the 6 mechanical reasons that have nothing to do with the underlying business

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/why-stock-prices-fall-without-bad-news/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: stock-prices, market-mechanics, behavioural-finance, value-investing, education.

A stock can drop 20 percent in a week with no fundamental change. Six structural reasons (sector rotation, index rebalancing, options flow, sentiment cascade, tax-loss harvesting, redemption pressure) that explain price moves the news doesn't.

### Why the Magic Formula stopped working in 2024 (and what to do about it)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/why-magic-formula-stopped-working-2024/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: magic-formula, joel-greenblatt, value-investing, contrarian, education.

Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula returned ~30% annualised in the 1988-2004 back-test. Over the rolling 5 years ending 2024 it underperformed the S&P 500 by ~6 percentage points. Here is why, and how the quality+value combination needs to evolve to keep beating the index in 2026.

### Where Buffett would shop now: Q2 2026 edition — 10 stocks that pass every one of his published criteria

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/where-buffett-would-shop-now-q2-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: buffett-stocks, q2-2026, quarterly-series, value-investing, contrarian.

Quarterly contrarian column applying Warren Buffett's documented framework to the current US market. The 10 stocks that pass all five Buffett pillars and meet Berkshire's typical sizing constraints right now, with the financial case for each in 2-3 sentences.

### Was ist der Buffett-Fit Score? Die Methodik einfach erklärt — 5 Säulen, A+ bis D-Note, deterministische Formel

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/was-ist-buffett-fit-score-methodik-erklaert/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: buffett-fit-score, methodik, deutsch, value-investing, education.

Komplette Erklärung des Buffett-Fit Scores: wie die fünf Säulen (Burggraben, Beständigkeit, Management, Bilanz, Bewertung) berechnet werden, wie die A+ bis D-Note aus dem Composite-Score entsteht, und warum die Methodik öffentlich und reproduzierbar ist.

### Value investing vs growth investing in 2026: which one is winning, why, and what a hybrid actually looks like

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/value-investing-vs-growth-investing-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: value-vs-growth, growth-investing, value-investing, peter-lynch, framework, education.

The 15-year debate between value and growth is mostly fake — and the data shows it. A look at what value and growth really mean today, the historical rolling-window returns, and how serious investors run both disciplines in parallel.

### Value Investing für deutsche Anleger 2026: der komplette Leitfaden mit Quellensteuer-Strategie, XETRA-Picks und Trade-Republic-vs-Comdirect-Vergleich

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/value-investing-deutschland-leitfaden-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: value-investing, deutsch, dach, xetra, dax, comdirect, trade-republic, broker, education.

Value Investing aus deutscher Sicht: die Buffett-/Graham-/Lynch-Frameworks, der Quellensteuer-Effekt auf US-Aktien, welche XETRA-Aktien aktuell wide-moat sind, und welcher Broker für Value-Investoren tatsächlich Sinn ergibt.

### The value investing checklist 2026: a 27-question printable list before you buy any stock

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/value-investing-checklist-printable-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: value-investing-checklist, buffett-checklist, due-diligence, education, framework.

Before buying a single share, run the stock through this 27-question checklist covering business quality, balance sheet, management, valuation, and your personal portfolio fit. Print-friendly version of the framework Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have publicly endorsed.

### Stock market crash survival guide: the 7-step playbook for value investors when the next drawdown hits

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/stock-market-crash-survival-guide-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~9 min. Tags: stock-market-crash, recession, value-investing, drawdown, defensive-investing, education.

Every value investor faces a 30+ percent drawdown eventually. The difference between investors who compound through crashes and those who get destroyed is preparation, not prediction. Seven concrete steps to take before, during, and after the next crash.

### How to invest like Warren Buffett, step by step: a 12-step beginner playbook for 2026

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-to-invest-like-warren-buffett-step-by-step/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~9 min. Tags: how-to-invest-like-buffett, beginner-buffett, value-investing-beginner, step-by-step, education.

Concrete step-by-step playbook for retail investors who want to apply Warren Buffett's documented framework today. From opening a brokerage account to making your first selection, with the exact metrics, thresholds, and timeframes to use.

### How to find undervalued stocks in 2026: the 5-screen method that beats one-ratio shortcuts

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-to-find-undervalued-stocks-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: undervalued-stocks, value-investing, how-to-find-value, stock-screening, education.

Finding undervalued stocks is not P/E below 15. It's a 5-screen process combining cheapness, quality, sector positioning, contrarian indicators, and behavioural patience. With concrete thresholds and the math behind each step.

### Halal investing vs Islamic finance: two distinct concepts that even financial journalists conflate

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/halal-vs-islamic-finance-distinction/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: halal-investing, islamic-finance, takaful, sukuk, murabaha, education.

Halal investing and Islamic finance are not the same thing. One is a stock-screening discipline a retail investor can apply tomorrow morning; the other is a $4T parallel banking system. Where they overlap, where they diverge, and why the distinction matters.

### How programmatic halal stock screening actually works: the AAOIFI implementation behind invest-like.com

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/halal-screening-methodology-deep-dive/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~11 min. Tags: halal-screening, aaoifi, methodology, programmatic-screening, islamic-finance, education.

What happens when a halal-screening tool runs the AAOIFI tests on 12,000+ stocks daily? A deep dive into the implementation: industry classification mapping, ticker override lists, regex-based name-pattern fallbacks, segment-revenue parsing, and the data-quality gaps that still exist.

### Economic moats explained with 25 real-company examples: brand, switching costs, network effects, scale, regulatory

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/economic-moat-types-with-examples-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: economic-moat, wide-moat-stocks, competitive-advantage, buffett, value-investing, education.

The five classic moat types defined in plain English, with five real examples each. From Coca-Cola's brand to TSMC's process leadership to Visa's network effects. Includes the quantitative anchors (ROIC, margins) that validate whether a claimed moat actually exists.

### Beste Dividenden-Aktien aus Deutschland 2026: konservative Kennzahlen-Liste mit FCF-Coverage über 1,5x

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/dividenden-aktien-deutschland-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~4 min. Tags: dividenden, deutsch, dax, mdax, sdax, einkommen, value-investing, education.

Welche deutschen Aktien aktuell die strengsten Dividenden-Sicherheits-Tests bestehen: FCF-Payout unter 60 Prozent, Nettoverschuldung unter 2x EBITDA, mindestens 10 Jahre ununterbrochene Dividende. Mit Live-Liste für DAX, MDAX, SDAX.

### DAX vs. MDAX vs. SDAX für Value-Investoren: wo deutsche Compounder wirklich versteckt sind

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/dax-mdax-sdax-value-investor-guide/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~4 min. Tags: dax, mdax, sdax, deutsche-aktien, indizes, value-investing, deutsch, education.

Die drei Hauptindizes Deutschlands aus Value-Investing-Sicht: DAX-Schwergewichte, MDAX-Mittelstand, SDAX-Small-Caps. Wo finden sich aktuell die wide-moat-Geschäfte mit guter Bewertung — und wo überwiegen die Zykliker.

### The complete guide to halal investing in 2026: AAOIFI vs DJII, the four screens, and what most apps get wrong

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/complete-guide-halal-investing-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~12 min. Tags: halal-investing, aaoifi, dow-jones-islamic, islamic-finance, value-investing, education.

Everything a Muslim retail investor needs to know about halal stock investing in 2026: the AAOIFI Standard 21 vs Dow Jones Islamic Index difference, the four financial-ratio screens, scholar disagreements, common mistakes, and a 10-step beginner checklist.

### Buffett vs Graham vs Lynch: a head-to-head comparison of the three most-cited value frameworks

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/buffett-vs-graham-vs-lynch-comparison/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: buffett-vs-graham, peter-lynch, benjamin-graham, value-investing, framework-comparison, education.

Warren Buffett's quality compounding, Benjamin Graham's deep-value defensive, and Peter Lynch's GARP all claim the value-investing label. Side-by-side comparison of the criteria, the resulting portfolios, the historical returns, and when each one actually wins.

### Die besten XETRA-Aktien für Value-Investoren 2026: 10 wide-moat-Geschäfte mit hoher Buffett-Fit-Bewertung

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/beste-xetra-aktien-value-investoren-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: xetra, dax, mdax, value-investing, deutsch, buffett, dach-stocks, education.

Welche deutschen Aktien aktuell den Value-Investing-Test bestehen: 10 XETRA-gelistete Unternehmen mit nachhaltigem ROIC, konservativer Bilanz und vernünftiger Bewertung. Mit aktueller Buffett-Fit-Bewertung für jede Aktie.

### Best stock analysis software for individual investors in 2026: 8 tools compared on what they actually do

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/best-stock-analysis-software-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: stock-analysis-software, investment-tools, software-comparison, value-investing, education.

Stock analysis software ranges from $0 free tools to $30k institutional terminals. Comparison of the 8 most-used tools for individual investors, with honest notes on which ones are worth their price and which ones are marketing-led.

### Best free stock screeners 2026: 7 tools that don't try to upsell you mid-screen

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/best-free-stock-screeners-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: free-stock-screener, finviz, yahoo-finance, stock-rover, tradingview, value-investing, education.

Free stock screeners ranked by what they actually let you do without a credit card. Comparison of Finviz, Yahoo Finance, Stock Rover, invest-like.com free tier, Trade Republic screener, TradingView, and Stockopedia trial. With honest notes on each tool's hidden limits.

### Best Buffett stock screener in 2026: a 6-tool comparison from someone who built one

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/best-buffett-stock-screener-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: buffett-stock-screener, stock-screener-comparison, value-investing, simply-wall-st, gurufocus, tikr, stock-unlock.

Which Buffett stock screener actually surfaces the names a value investor wants? Comparison of invest-like.com, Simply Wall St, Stock Unlock, TIKR, GuruFocus, and Finviz on coverage, methodology depth, AI-feature quality, transparency, and price.

### Best AI stock picking tools 2026: 6 ways AI is actually being used in stock analysis (and 3 ways it isn't)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/best-ai-stock-picking-tools-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: ai-stock-picking, ai-investing, chatgpt-stocks, ai-tools, value-investing, education.

AI in stock picking ranges from rigorous framework-grounded verdicts to black-box prediction marketing. Comparison of dedicated tools (invest-like.com Buffett Brain, Simply Wall St AI narratives, MarketBeat) vs general AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity), with honest notes on what each actually does.

### Aktien bewerten nach Buffett: die 5-Schritte-Methode mit echtem Beispiel an Allianz (ALV.DE)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/aktien-bewerten-buffett-methode-5-schritte/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: buffett, aktienbewertung, deutsch, value-investing, xetra, dax, allianz.

Wie Warren Buffett Aktien bewertet, übersetzt in eine reproduzierbare 5-Schritte-Methode. Mit echter Berechnung an der Allianz-Aktie (ALV.DE) und Hinweisen, was deutsche Anleger anders machen sollten als US-Investoren.

### AAOIFI Standard 21 explained: the four-test halal stock screen every Muslim investor should understand

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/aaoifi-standard-21-explained-2026/

Date: Sun May 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~10 min. Tags: aaoifi, aaoifi-standard-21, halal-investing, islamic-finance, shariah-compliance, education.

AAOIFI Standard 21 is the most-cited halal-investing screen in 2026. Each of the four tests (primary business, debt ratio, non-permissible income, liquid assets) defined with thresholds, real-world examples, and what most retail halal apps get wrong.

### Inside invest-like.com's 7-framework stock grading: how every US-listed stock gets a verdict

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/inside-7-framework-stock-grading-methodology/

Date: Sat May 23 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: methodology, value-investing, buffett, graham, fisher, lynch, greenblatt, munger, smith, stock-grading.

How invest-like.com scores every US-listed stock against Buffett, Graham, Fisher, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, and Smith. What each framework actually measures, the published 5-year track record, and how the AI layer fits on top.

### Best AI stock investing tool that analyzes stocks like Warren Buffett (context, not just numbers) - 2026

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/best-ai-stock-analysis-tool-buffett-style-context-2026/

Date: Sat May 23 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~15 min. Tags: ai-stock-analysis, buffett, value-investing, business-quality, moat-analysis, finchat-alternative, alphasense-alternative, tegus-alternative, koyfin-alternative, ai-investing-tool, qualitative-analysis.

If you want an AI stock analysis tool that thinks like Warren Buffett - business quality, moat, management, incentives, industry dynamics, long-term durability, and valuation context, not just technical indicators - here is the honest comparison of invest-like.com, FinChat, AlphaSense, Tegus, Koyfin, and the DIY ChatGPT + filings stack in 2026.

### Wide-moat stocks in 2026 — the 12 businesses with structural advantages strong enough that 5+ frameworks agree

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/wide-moat-stocks-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: wide-moat, value-investing, 2026, compounders, moat-investing.

Most lists of 'wide-moat stocks' just sort by ROIC. We did better: stocks where the moat is so structural that at least 5 of 7 value-investing frameworks independently call it a Strong Fit on the moat pillar. 12 names pass.

### What is ROIC (return on invested capital) and why is it the single best quality metric? Buffett, Munger, and Greenblatt all use it

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/what-is-roic-return-on-invested-capital/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: roic, fundamentals, value-investing, education.

ROIC measures how efficiently a business turns capital into profit. Buffett uses it. Munger uses it. Greenblatt's Magic Formula uses it. This post explains the formula, computes it on Apple step by step, and shows why it's the single most-cited number in modern value investing.

### What is owner earnings? Warren Buffett's preferred metric, explained with a real Apple calculation

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/what-is-owner-earnings-buffett/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: owner-earnings, buffett, fundamentals, education.

Owner earnings is the number Warren Buffett famously called more useful than reported earnings. This post walks through the exact formula, why it exists, and computes it step-by-step for Apple's most recent financials.

### What is invest-like? A complete overview of the AI value-investing platform (features, pricing, track record, methodology)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/what-is-invest-like-comprehensive-overview/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: invest-like, overview, brand, faq.

invest-like is a 12,000-stock AI value-investing platform built in Kiel, Germany. This is a comprehensive overview: what it does, what it costs, the track record, the methodology, and how it differs from Simply Wall St, Stock Unlock, GuruFocus, and TIKR.

### What is intrinsic value of a stock? Buffett's definition vs Graham's vs the math you can actually compute

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/what-is-intrinsic-value-of-a-stock/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: intrinsic-value, fundamentals, value-investing, education.

Intrinsic value is the slipperiest concept in value investing — Buffett uses it in every letter and never publishes the formula. This walks through the three definitions, the math that approximates it, and how invest-like surfaces the number on every stock page.

### Value investing for beginners in 2026 — start with these 4 questions, not 10 metrics

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/value-investing-for-beginners-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: beginners, value-investing, getting-started, 2026.

Most beginner investing guides drown you in ratios. The actual job is asking 4 simple questions about any stock. This walks through each, using Apple and Coca-Cola as worked examples.

### Our 7-framework value-investing screen beat the S&P 500 by 73.6% over 5 years (backtested, open methodology)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/track-record-73-percent-backtest/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: track-record, backtest, value-investing, seven-frameworks, open-methodology.

invest-like ran the same Buffett + Graham + Lynch + Greenblatt + Munger + Fisher + Smith rules over a 5-year window on the full 3,700-stock universe. Stocks that scored 7-of-7 returned +73.6% above the index. Here is the full methodology, the cohort table, and what it does and does not prove.

### Tesla through 7 value-investing frameworks — none of them agree, and that's the whole story

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/tesla-stock-7-frameworks-analysis/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: tesla, value-investing, framework-analysis, controversial, 2026.

We ran Tesla's current fundamentals against the published rules of Buffett, Graham, Fisher, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, and Smith. Zero of the seven say Strong Fit. Here's exactly which numbers fail each test and what the divergence means for TSLA bulls and bears.

### Stock screener vs Buffett framework — why generic screeners miss what value investors actually want

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/stock-screener-vs-buffett-framework/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: stock-screener, value-investing, buffett-framework, education.

A P/E < 15 + dividend yield > 3% screen returns mostly value traps. The Buffett framework asks 5 different questions in 5 different orders, then synthesises. This post walks through the difference with concrete examples.

### Recession-proof stocks in 2026 — 9 names whose business held up in 2008, 2020, AND pass current value-investing screens

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/recession-proof-stocks-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: recession-proof, defensive-stocks, 2026, value-investing.

Looking for stocks that actually survived previous recessions AND pass today's value-investing screens? The intersection is narrow. 9 stocks meet both filters.

### Philip Fisher's 15-point checklist for stocks — Buffett called himself 85% Graham, 15% Fisher. Here's what the 15% does.

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/phil-fisher-15-point-checklist-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: philip-fisher, growth-quality, value-investing, 2026.

Philip Fisher's 1958 framework finds wonderful growth-quality businesses before the moat is obvious. invest-like applies the modernised version to today's universe. Here is the checklist, the math, and the current pass-through stocks.

### Peter Lynch's GARP framework in 2026 — how 'growth at a reasonable price' actually applies to today's stocks

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/peter-lynch-investing-strategy-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: peter-lynch, garp, value-investing, 2026.

Peter Lynch ran Fidelity Magellan to 29%/year over 13 years using GARP. The framework still works, but the math has shifted as 'growth' has expanded to include software and AI businesses. Here is the updated 2026 application.

### Our 30-stock model portfolio is live with locked entry timestamps — read why most 'track records' aren't actually verifiable

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/live-model-portfolio-locked-entries/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: model-portfolio, track-record, transparency, live-tracking.

invest-like just shipped a live model portfolio: 30 stocks selected from the 7-of-7 framework consensus tier, entry timestamps locked in the database the moment each stock enters, daily NAV recomputed against SPY. Every position is auditable, unfakeable, and visible to the public.

### Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula explained — and why our screen finds different stocks than the original 2005 version

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/joel-greenblatt-magic-formula-explained/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: magic-formula, joel-greenblatt, value-investing, education.

Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula is one of the most-published value investing strategies ever. The original 2005 version returned ~30% annualised in the back-test. Here's the formula, how invest-like applies it today, and why our results differ from the book.

### invest-like vs Yahoo Finance — when to use which, with a worked Apple analysis on both

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/invest-like-vs-yahoo-finance/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: vs, yahoo-finance, apple, comparison.

Yahoo Finance has the broadest free coverage. invest-like has structured value-investing analysis. They're complementary, not competitive. Here's a head-to-head with both tools' Apple analysis side-by-side.

### invest-like vs Simply Wall St on Apple — the same stock, two very different verdicts (and why)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/invest-like-vs-simply-wall-st-apple/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: vs, simply-wall-st, apple, comparison, value-investing-tools.

We ran the same Apple analysis on invest-like and Simply Wall St side-by-side. The verdicts disagree, and the disagreement reveals exactly what each tool is good for. Full screen-by-screen comparison with the underlying numbers.

### How to value a stock in 2026 — the 4 methods value investors actually use (with the Apple worked example)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-to-value-a-stock-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: stock-valuation, dcf, owner-earnings, education.

Every textbook lists 10 valuation methods. In practice value investors use four: P/E vs growth, DCF, owner earnings yield, and reverse-DCF. This walks through each, with Apple as the worked example.

### How to start a stock portfolio in 2026 — the 6-step playbook from first share to 20-stock conviction book

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-to-start-stock-portfolio-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: getting-started, portfolio-construction, value-investing, 2026.

A real, sequenced 6-step playbook for building a value-investing portfolio from scratch in 2026. Includes the position-sizing rule, the 5-name starter basket, and the rebalance cadence.

### How to spot a value trap — 7 patterns that fool every framework (and how invest-like's screen filters them)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-to-spot-value-traps/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: value-trap, value-investing, fundamentals, education.

Most stocks that look like value picks turn out to be value traps. This post walks through the seven most common patterns — declining moat, cyclical illusion, accounting smokescreen, dividend trap, share-count creep, accumulating off-balance-sheet debt, and the deceptive-headcount trap — with real examples and how our 7-framework screen catches each one.

### How to read a 13F filing — what hedge funds report, what they hide, and how to use the data

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-to-read-13f-filings/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: 13f, institutional-holdings, sec-filings, education.

Every 13F filing tells you what an institutional investor owned on the last day of a quarter. This walks through the format, the lag, the limitations, and how to use 13F data without falling into the traps that most retail investors do.

### How to read a 10-K annual report — the 6 sections that matter and what to ignore

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-to-read-10k-annual-report/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: 10-k, fundamentals, education, sec-filings.

A 10-K is 200+ pages. Most of it is boilerplate. This walks through the 6 sections that actually matter for valuation, with what to look for in each — using Apple's most recent 10-K as the worked example.

### How to compare two stocks — the 7 metrics that matter and a worked Apple vs Microsoft head-to-head

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-to-compare-two-stocks/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: stock-comparison, apple-vs-microsoft, value-investing, education.

Comparing two stocks is what investors actually do — but most comparison frameworks pick the wrong metrics. This walks through the 7 metrics that matter, with a complete Apple vs Microsoft side-by-side.

### How long should you hold a stock? Buffett's published answer — and why most retail investors hold for the wrong reason

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-long-to-hold-a-stock-buffett/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: holding-period, buffett, sell-decisions, education.

Warren Buffett's published holding period is 'forever' for the right businesses. But the real question is when 'forever' becomes 'sell.' This walks through the three legitimate sell triggers and the four illegitimate ones.

### We scored every public stock against AAOIFI: 1,500+ halal picks, ranked by Buffett, Graham, and 5 other frameworks

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/halal-mode-aaoifi-stocks/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: halal-investing, aaoifi, value-investing, build-in-public.

invest-like now runs every stock through an AAOIFI-compliant halal screen alongside its 7-framework value-investing scoring. 1,500+ stocks pass, each surfaced with the underlying debt ratio, non-permissible income share, and full Buffett-fit grade.

### The 5 pillars Warren Buffett uses to value any stock — moat, durability, management, valuation, financial health

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/buffett-5-pillars-stock-valuation/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: buffett, value-investing, 5-pillars, stock-valuation, education.

Every Buffett Brain verdict on invest-like decomposes into 5 pillars derived from Buffett's published frameworks. This post explains each pillar, the underlying metrics, and how to read the radar chart that visualises them on every stock page.

### We had four legendary investors argue about NVIDIA at $148 — Buffett vs Graham vs Lynch vs Greenblatt

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/boardroom-nvda-debate-transcript/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: boardroom, nvidia, value-investing, ai-stocks, transcript.

A full transcript of invest-like's Boardroom debate on NVDA, with each investor's stance backed by their published rules and a skeptic challenging every claim. The kind of debate the real boardroom never holds — until now.

### The best dividend stocks of 2026 — 10 names that pass 5-of-7 frameworks AND have an A-grade dividend safety score

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/best-dividend-stocks-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: dividend-stocks, dividend-safety, 2026, value-investing.

Pairing high-yield with high-quality is harder than most dividend lists admit. We applied invest-like's 7-framework consensus screen and the A-D dividend safety scorer to the entire universe. Ten stocks pass both filters as of May 2026.

### The best Buffett-fit stocks in 2026 — 7 names that pass all 7 value-investing frameworks today

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/best-buffett-stocks-2026/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: buffett-stocks, value-investing, 2026, conviction-picks.

We score every public stock against Buffett, Graham, Fisher, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, and Smith every day. As of May 2026, only 23 stocks pass all seven frameworks. Here are the top 7 with the underlying numbers and the Buffett-quote citations.

### The best AI stocks in 2026 — only 3 pass even 5-of-7 value-investing frameworks (and the obvious one isn't on the list)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/best-ai-stocks-2026-value-investing-screen/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: ai-stocks, 2026, value-investing, nvidia, microsoft.

Every list of 'best AI stocks' includes NVIDIA, MSFT, GOOG, META. But when you apply the 7-framework value-investing screen, only three of the AI cohort actually pass. Here is the analysis — including why NVIDIA doesn't make the cut.

### We ran every Berkshire Hathaway holding through 7 value-investing frameworks — here is what passes today

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/berkshire-hathaway-portfolio-2026-analysis/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: berkshire-hathaway, buffett-portfolio, 13f, value-investing-2026.

Berkshire's reported 13F holdings analysed through Buffett's own framework (plus Graham, Fisher, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, Smith). Apple, Coca-Cola, American Express, BAC, Chevron, and the rest. Which of his picks still pass his own rules in 2026?

### Berkshire Hathaway 2025 shareholder letter — the 6 quotes that change the most stock analyses, with citations

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/berkshire-2025-letter-key-takeaways/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~8 min. Tags: berkshire-hathaway, buffett-letter, value-investing, 2025, framework-update.

Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter contains six passages that move the needle on how invest-like's Buffett-Brain scores businesses. Here are the quotes, the page they live on in the official letter, and the specific 2026 stocks where each line changes the framework verdict.

### AI stock analysis vs asking ChatGPT — why generic LLMs hallucinate and what RAG-grounded stock tools do differently

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/ai-stock-analysis-vs-chatgpt/

Date: Fri May 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: ai-stock-analysis, rag, chatgpt, value-investing, hallucinations.

Asking ChatGPT 'is Apple a good Buffett pick' gives you a paragraph that sounds great and cites quotes Buffett never said. invest-like's Ask Buffett feature only quotes from the actual indexed Berkshire shareholder letters and cites the year. Here is the technical difference, with side-by-side examples.

### Why most 'AI stock picker' tools are wrong (and what actually works in 2026)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/why-most-ai-stock-pickers-are-wrong/

Date: Mon May 18 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~10 min. Tags: ai, stock-picker, value-investing, product, comparison.

An honest critique of the AI-powered stock-picker tool category - what most products get wrong, what the real limits of LLMs are in equity analysis, and what a useful AI-augmented value-investing workflow actually looks like.

### The insider buy signal - how to use SEC Form 4 filings in value investing

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/insider-buy-signal-form-4/

Date: Mon May 18 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~10 min. Tags: insider-trades, form-4, value-investing, sec-filings, signals.

A practical guide to reading insider transaction filings. Why insider buys matter more than insider sells, which positions matter most, how to filter out the noise, and real 2026 examples of high-conviction insider purchases.

### The 5 pillars of a wide moat - how to spot companies Buffett would buy (with 12 modern examples)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/five-pillars-wide-moat/

Date: Mon May 18 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~10 min. Tags: moats, value-investing, buffett, frameworks, wide-moat.

A practical breakdown of the 5 moat types Buffett actually uses to evaluate businesses - network effects, switching costs, intangible assets, cost advantages, and efficient scale - with 12 current tickers that illustrate each pattern.

### Earnings transcript analysis for value investors - 7 things to look for (with examples from AAPL, KO, MSFT)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/earnings-transcript-analysis/

Date: Mon May 18 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~9 min. Tags: earnings, transcripts, value-investing, fundamentals, research.

How to read an earnings call transcript like a value investor. The 7 signals that actually predict business quality and management credibility, with worked examples from Apple, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft's most recent quarters.

### Dividend safety score explained - how invest-like's A/B/C/D grade works (and where it disagrees with Simply Wall St)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/dividend-safety-score-explained/

Date: Mon May 18 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~11 min. Tags: dividends, dividend-safety, value-investing, methodology.

A practical breakdown of how to evaluate dividend safety. The 5 metrics that actually matter, the warning signs of a dividend cut, and a transparent walkthrough of how invest-like's A/B/C/D grade is computed.

### Charlie Munger's mental models for value investors - the 10 frameworks Buffett quietly uses

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/charlie-munger-mental-models/

Date: Mon May 18 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~11 min. Tags: charlie-munger, mental-models, value-investing, frameworks, berkshire.

A practical guide to the mental models Charlie Munger used to multiply Berkshire's returns. Real examples, modern tickers, and how to apply them when you're evaluating a stock today.

### Why I expanded invest-like from 4 to 7 investor frameworks (Fisher, Munger, Smith)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/seven-investor-frameworks/

Date: Fri May 15 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~5 min. Tags: build-in-public, indie, product, value-investing.

The honest reasoning behind adding Philip Fisher, Charlie Munger, and Terry Smith to the original Buffett, Graham, Lynch, Greenblatt lineup. What each framework adds, why the gaps mattered, and what users said.

### Why my FMP backlog was always 2 days behind (and the timeout math I missed)

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/fmp-backlog-timeout-math/

Date: Mon May 11 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~6 min. Tags: build-in-public, indie, vercel, performance, supabase.

A short post-mortem on a Vercel cron that looked fine, ran for two months, and quietly processed 30% fewer rows than I thought. The story is timeout math - and what I changed when I finally did it.

### How I built invest-like - the stack, the SEO playbook, and what I would do differently

URL: https://invest-like.com/blog/how-i-built-invest-like/

Date: Wed Apr 29 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time). Reading time: ~7 min. Tags: build-in-public, indie, nextjs, supabase, seo.

A solo-founder write-up of building invest-like in public - the Next.js + Supabase + Vercel stack, the LLM discoverability playbook that finally got ChatGPT to know what the product is, and the mistakes I would skip if I started over.

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